Admiration Over Time
Archer,Alfred Matheson,Benjamin
Archer,Alfred
Matheson,Benjamin
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the diachronic fittingness conditions of admiration - that is, what it takes for a person to continue or cease to be admirable over time. We present a series of cases that elicit judgements that suggest different understandings of admiration over time. In some cases, admirability seems to last forever. In other cases, it seems that it can cease within a person's lifetime if she changes sufficiently. Taken together, these cases highlight what we call the puzzle of admiration over time. We then present a potential solution to this puzzle.
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Funding Information: Open access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Publisher Copyright: ©2020 The Author Pacific Philosophical Quarterly © 2020 University of Southern California and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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2020-12
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admiration, moral responsibility, ideals, virtue, Moral Philosophy
Citation
Archer, A & Matheson, B 2020, 'Admiration Over Time', Pacific philosophical quarterly, vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 669-689. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12324